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- Title
Victims or Beneficiaries?: Wage Premia and National Origin in the National Hockey League.
- Authors
von Allmen, Peter; Leeds, Michael; Malakorn, Julian
- Abstract
We add to the literature on migration and earnings by showing how migration affects one particularly highly skilled set of migrants: European hockey players. We examine salary differentials using a sample of newly signed free agents from the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons. We also apply several new productivity measures that sharpen the specification of the wage equation, especially regarding productivity on defense and special teams play. We find that European players receive a premium relative to otherwise identical Canadian and US-born players. We present evidence that this premium is due to the greater mobility of European players and their resulting access to alternative employment possibilities.
- Subjects
NATIONAL Hockey League; ATHLETES; HOCKEY players; NATIONAL origin discrimination in employment; FREE agents (Sports); LABOR productivity; EUROPEAN athletes; LABOR market; WAGES
- Publication
Journal of Sport Management, 2015, Vol 29, Issue 6, p633
- ISSN
0888-4773
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/JSM.2014-0179